Fiction

1. “The Da Vinci Code,” by Dan Brown (Doubleday, $24.95). A murder at the Louvre leads to a trail of clues found in the work of Leonardo and to the discovery of a secret society.

2. “The Hostage,” by W. E. B. Griffin (Putnam, $26.95). An Army officer probes the murder of an American diplomat and the kidnapping of his wife, whose brother is linked to the Iraq oil-for-food scandal.

3. “Mary, Mary,” by James Patterson (Little, Brown, $27.95). The FBI agent Alex Cross tracks a Hollywood killer who announces the crimes via e-mail.

4. “Death Dance,” by Linda Fairstein (Scribner, $26). Alexandra Cooper, a Manhattan assistant district attorney, investigates the disappearance of a ballerina.

5. “Every Breath You Take,” by Judith McNaught (Ballantine, $25.95). When the grandson of a Chicago philanthropist disappears, suspicion falls on the wrong man.

Nonfiction

1. “For Laci,” by Sharon Rocha (Crown, $25.95). Laci Peterson’s mother recalls her daughter and describes her killer’s trial.

2. “Marley & Me,” by John Grogan (Morrow, $21.95). A newspaper columnist and his wife learn some life lessons from their neurotic dog.

3. “The World is Flat,” by Thomas L. Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27.50). A columnist for The New York Times analyzes 21st-century economics and foreign policy and presents an overview of globalization trends.

4. “My Friend Leonard,” by James Frey (Riverhead, $24.95). The author of the addiction memoir “A Million Little Pieces” remembers a helpful mobster friend.

5. “Night,” by Elie Wiesel (Hill & Wang, $19.95). A new translation of an account of the horrors of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, first published in English in 1960.

– The New York Times